Thermally Active Liquid Crystal Network Gripper Mimicking the Self-Peeling of Gecko Toe Pads

Switchable Adhesion in Vacuum Using Bio-Inspired Dry Adhesives

(2015) Julia Purtov et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Smart Muscle-Driven Self-Cleaning of Biomimetic Microstructures from Liquid Crystal Elastomers

(2015) Hamed Shahsavan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

(2015) Timothy J. White et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   SCIENCE

Rate-dependence of ‘wet’ biological adhesives and the function of the pad secretion in insects

(2015) David Labonte et al.   Soft Matter

Robust self-cleaning and micromanipulation capabilities of gecko spatulae and their bio-mimics

(2015) Quan Xu et al.   Nature Communications

Soft Grippers Using Micro-fibrillar Adhesives for Transfer Printing

(2014) Sukho Song et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light controlled friction at a liquid crystal polymer coating with switchable patterning

(2014) Danqing Liu et al.   Soft Matter

Controllable Interfacial Adhesion Applied to Transfer Light and Fragile Objects by Using Gecko Inspired Mushroom-Shaped Pillar Surface

(2013) Ming Zhou et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Accordion-like Actuators of Multiple 3D Patterned Liquid Crystal Polymer Films

(2013) Laurens T. de Haan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Microstructured Nematic Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Surfaces with Switchable Wetting Properties

(2013) Zi Liang Wu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Magnetically Actuated Patterns for Bioinspired Reversible Adhesion (Dry and Wet)

(2013) Dirk-Michael Drotlef et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Wavelength-Selective, IR Light-Driven Hinges Based on Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Composites

(2013) Ryan R. Kohlmeyer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Bioinspired Functionally Graded Adhesive Materials: Synergetic Interplay of Top Viscous–Elastic Layers with Base Micropillars

(2013) Hamed Shahsavan et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Instantly switchable adhesion of bridged fibrillar adhesive via gecko-inspired detachment mechanism and its application to a transportation system

(2013) Won-Gyu Bae et al.   Nanoscale

Bioinspired Actuated Adhesive Patterns of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

(2012) Jiaxi Cui et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Effect of retraction speed on adhesion of elastomer fibrillar structures

(2012) Uyiosa Abusomwan et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Dynamic self-cleaning in gecko setae via digital hyperextension

(2012) S. Hu et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Giant-Amplitude, High-Work Density Microactuators with Phase Transition Activated Nanolayer Bimorphs

(2012) Kai Liu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Biologically inspired enhancement of pressure-sensitive adhesives using a thin film-terminated fibrillar interface

(2012) Hamed Shahsavan et al.   Soft Matter

Liquid-Crystalline Elastomer Microvalve for Microfluidics

(2011) Antoni Sánchez-Ferrer et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photo-Switchable Surface Topologies in Chiral Nematic Coatings

(2011) Danqing Liu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Microstructured elastomeric surfaces with reversible adhesion and examples of their use in deterministic assembly by transfer printing

(2010) S. Kim et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Recent advances in the fabrication and adhesion testing of biomimetic dry adhesives

(2010) D Sameoto et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Enhanced Adhesion by Gecko-Inspired Hierarchical Fibrillar Adhesives

(2009) Michael P. Murphy et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Effect of fibril arrangement on crack trapping in a film-terminated fibrillar interface

(2009) Jingzhou Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Effect of Rate on Adhesion and Static Friction of a Film-Terminated Fibrillar Interface

(2009) Shilpi Vajpayee et al.   LANGMUIR

Gecko-Inspired Directional and Controllable Adhesion

(2009) Michael P. Murphy et al.   Small

Fabrication Approaches for Generating Complex Micro- and Nanopatterns on Polymeric Surfaces

(2008) Aránzazu del Campo et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Compliance of a microfibril subjected to shear and normal loads

(2008) J. Liu et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Blocked force measurement of an electro-active paper actuator using a cantilevered force transducer

(2008) Gyu-young Yun et al.   Smart Materials and Structures